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mackfrib 🇺🇦 👨👩👧👦🏒🎿⛳🐶🐕💆♂️ retweeted
🇺🇸🇺🇦 MUSK AND TRUMP’S SATELLITE POWER PLAY IS BACKFIRING WORLDWIDE
Elon Musk and Donald Trump wanted to demonstrate just how much power Washington and its technology giants hold over Ukraine’s communications.
Instead, they have given governments around the world another reason to build satellite networks that neither the White House nor a single billionaire can switch off.
The temporary Starshield shutdown and pressure on Ukraine have brought a much bigger issue into focus: technological sovereignty.
And the response is taking shape across several countries.
🇨🇦 CANADA: Ottawa has signed a CAD 2.3 billion agreement with Telesat to expand its Lightspeed satellite constellation, incorporating secure military communications. Canadian manufacturer MDA Space is also receiving additional satellite orders.
🇫🇮 FINLAND: ICEYE and Nokia are working together on sovereign satellite communications infrastructure, allowing European governments to own and control their networks, including encryption, rather than depend entirely on foreign providers.
🇪🇺 EUROPEAN UNION: Brussels is expanding its IRIS² satellite network, with plans for 348 satellites and an additional €4 billion in funding. Airbus and Thales Alenia Space are involved in manufacturing and secure government communications systems.
🇰🇷 SOUTH KOREA: The domestically developed Nuri rocket has deployed 14 payloads, including reconnaissance and military satellites, strengthening Seoul’s independent space capabilities.
🇯🇵 JAPAN: Tokyo is investing approximately $1 billion in direct-to-device satellite communications, designed to keep ordinary smartphones connected during disasters and military emergencies.
🇩🇪 GERMANY: Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum rocket has reached orbit, marking another step toward independent European access to space.
And perhaps the most important developments concern Ukraine itself.
🇺🇦 UKRAINE: The UASAT project has completed its registration with the International Telecommunication Union. Preparations for the UASAT-NANO test satellite are underway, laying the groundwork for a Ukrainian-controlled constellation.
🇨🇿 CZECH REPUBLIC: Prague and Kyiv are advancing cooperation on Suziria, a proposed optical reconnaissance satellite constellation. Ukraine is also expected to receive backup communications capacity through Europe’s GOVSATCOM system.
These projects are at different stages, and not all are direct replacements for Starlink. Some provide broadband, others military communications, reconnaissance or independent launch capabilities.
But they point in the same direction.
Governments increasingly recognize that critical communications cannot depend on the political decisions of another country or the personal discretion of a private technology executive.
Musk and Trump wanted to demonstrate who controls the switch.
They may have helped convince much of the world that nobody should have that much control in the first place.
mackfrib 🇺🇦 👨👩👧👦🏒🎿⛳🐶🐕💆♂️ retweeted
Thank you, Emmanuel, for your condolences. Unfortunately, the death toll from the Russian strike on a commuter train in Dnipro has already risen to 14. And just a few hours ago, the Russians struck a residential neighborhood in Chernihiv with a drone and killed two girls. They were only 15 years old. In Kremenchuk, a Russian “shahed” struck an apartment building. Tragically, three people were killed. My condolences to all those who lost their loved ones. In these three attacks alone, 56 people have been reported injured, including 10 children.
These are deliberate strikes against civilians, brazen in their cruelty, and the Russians are carrying them out right as the humanitarian operation in Oleshky is unfolding. Russia’s signals are clear – they want the war to continue, and everyone around the world must still work very hard to achieve major de-escalation through strong steps and appropriate pressure on the aggressor.
Peace is needed – and for that to happen, Russia must end its war and terror.
Je viens d'apprendre avec émotion qu'un drone à réaction russe vient de s'abattre sur la gare de Dnipro, avec un très lourd bilan.
J'adresse au Président @ZelenskyyUa et au peuple ukrainien mes condoléances et notre solidarité.
Nous devons, dans ce contexte, aspirer à bien plus qu'un cessez-le-feu localisé comme celui qui vient d'être négocié localement à Olechky. Il est intolérable que la Russie continue d'opposer son refus à toutes les propositions en ce sens, en continuant de miser sur l'escalade et en visant les civils.
Nous devons ensemble redoubler d'efforts pour une paix juste et durable et amener la Russie à la table des négociations.
mackfrib 🇺🇦 👨👩👧👦🏒🎿⛳🐶🐕💆♂️ retweeted
Donald Trump set another record.
There’s NEVER been an election (since polling began in the United States) where voters said “corruption” was their top worry.
Until now.
mackfrib 🇺🇦 👨👩👧👦🏒🎿⛳🐶🐕💆♂️ retweeted
This is a dead child in Ukraine this morning.
It’s very possible this child would be alive today if Ukraine wasn’t cut off from Starlink and US intelligence, formerly used to track Russian missiles and drones.
F-ck Trump.
mackfrib 🇺🇦 👨👩👧👦🏒🎿⛳🐶🐕💆♂️ retweeted
Stand with Zelensky and against Putin.
Stand with Pope Leo XIV and against ICE.
Stand with No Kings and against Meta.
Stand with the people and against the oligarchs.
Stand with liberal democracy and against Trump.
mackfrib 🇺🇦 👨👩👧👦🏒🎿⛳🐶🐕💆♂️ retweeted
Potentially the most pathetic statement ever released by a U.S. President. Forever a moral stain on this nation. Let’s vote anyone that has ever enabled him and his insanity the fuck out of office.
Trump: My decision on Russia is a very simple one. I don't want to do anything that will drive, foolishly, Russia away from the bargaining table.
Russia is doing very little, if anything, to help the Islamic Republic of Iran, compared to what they could be doing.
Zelenskyy is using Diesel Refineries in Russia as a target, knowing that these attacks are seriously hurting the world diesel markets, including those in the United States.
Farmers, ranchers, and businesses of all kinds are suffering greatly from this, but Russia is, nevertheless, sending, at a low price, millions of barrels of diesel to the World.
Zelenskyy doesn't care, and frankly, with all of the money that Europe is famously giving him, and that Crooked Joe Biden gave him in the past, he doesn't want to end this war, and probably never did.
He could have made a better deal two years ago than he can now. His country is in shambles, a large portion of his land is lost, his oceans and seas are gone, and his male population is low, wounded, and/or dead. I WANT THIS WAR END!
mackfrib 🇺🇦 👨👩👧👦🏒🎿⛳🐶🐕💆♂️ retweeted
🇺🇦/🇷🇺/🇺🇸 Je résume le génie du cretin de la Maison Blanche :
- Il retire les sanctions contre le pétrole russe pour toucher l’équivalent de 3 jours de consommation aux USA.
- Ça envoie un signal de normalisation à la Russie, et lui permet de toucher de l’argent pour financer sa guerre.
- Les européens et la délégation ukrainienne aux USA au même moment passent pour des idiots en découvrant l’annonce.
- Trump appelle Zelensky à quitter son poste de Président, l’insulte, demande à l’Ukraine d’arrêter d’attaquer le nerf de la guerre russe.
- Zelensky accepte, à condition que la Russie arrête elle aussi les attaques contre l’infrastructure énergétique.
- On apprend dans la presse que Trump menace de couper les renseignements à l’Ukraine, mais aussi de mettre un terme au programme PURL qui permet aux europeens d’acheter des armes américaines pour l’Ukraine.
- Sans consulter ni Moscou ni Kyiv, Trump annonce une pseudo trêve énergétique entre les deux belligérants.
- Moscou découvre l’annonce.
- Kyiv découvre l’annonce.
- Zelensky s’engage à accepter une trêve si la Russie elle aussi s’y engage.
- Moins de 2h plus tard, la Russie attaque une centrale énergétique à Kharkiv.
Trump est vraiment le plus grand guignol et lâche de la politique internationale.
Une honte pour les États-Unis.
Un incapable qui maquille ses échecs aux dépens de ceux qui résistent.
Une ordure qui se couche devant les pires régimes.
Une humiliation quotidienne pour les pays occidentaux.
J’espère qu’il prendra la plus grosse raclée possible aux élections de mi-mandat.
mackfrib 🇺🇦 👨👩👧👦🏒🎿⛳🐶🐕💆♂️ retweeted
Congrats to the “conservatives” who have ushered in an era of:
-A pro-Putin administration;
-Superpower suicide;
-Crony socialism;
-live-streamed executions;
-losing a war to Iran;
-unprecedented corruption;
-vindictive prosecutions;
-A disastrous economy for the working class.
mackfrib 🇺🇦 👨👩👧👦🏒🎿⛳🐶🐕💆♂️ retweeted
“Basically, you're done, Trump. You're done, Hegseth. It won't be long before you're politically thrown down that dark, deep hole.” - Lieutenant Colonel Malcom Ritchie (retired) from the U.S. Army Reserve.
“…. And I'm here today, not as a candidate, making that disclaimer. I am here to express my outrage at the meeting in Quantico, Virginia between Hegseth, Trump, and all of the senior officers in the United States military and the senior NCO corps. Those generals, Admirals, and senior NCOs sat there in stone face silence, listening to the most outrageous speeches ever made in United States military history by the Secretary of Defense and the President of the United States. Secretary of Defense on his this ridiculous rant. Trying to take to school, Generals, Admirals, senior NCOs with 10 times the leadership ability, the education and the experience. that the failed Major Hech could ever begin to understand. And then they have to listen to the cognitively declined President of the United States who I would now name as dictator of the United States. tell all this audience that they will be expected to wage war against the American people. That's exactly what Trump said. So don't get on here and try to tell me that he didn't say it. training grounds in American cities. What's that mean? They're going to go in locked and loaded into American cities, American neighborhoods and use American citizens as pop-up targets on a live fire training. range, This is absolutely astounding. Abuse of power which makes by my estimation Donald Trump a domestic enemy of the Constitution. Because my oath is to the Constitution and don't you think for one minute, Mr. Trump, that there aren't millions of other veterans and retirees that feel exactly the same way. We are enraged, we are beyond enraged, and we will protest peacefully. And we will go out and vote for the candidates of our choice in the 2026 midterm election, which you better not even try to stop. If you try to stop that by force, that's the nightmare scenario. And I'm not saying by violence, I'm saying politically. Basically, you're done, Trump. You're done, Hegseth. It won't be long before you're politically thrown down that dark, deep hole. But don't think it's not going to cause a lot of trauma on the American people, as they clutch to the roots of the hole on the way down, trying to survive something that they cannot possibly survive because this nation is a republic and it will not fall to a fascist regime.”
mackfrib 🇺🇦 👨👩👧👦🏒🎿⛳🐶🐕💆♂️ retweeted
When we started responding to Russia’s operation against our data centers, and when our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations.
Because there were fewer bots. And it’s pretty clear where those bots were coming from – if they disappeared when Yandex went offline. This proves, again and again, that Europe is not the source of the problems. Europe is not the one making everything more difficult.
Most importantly, we need people in America, every morning, when the day in Europe is already moving toward evening, to really see what is happening. To see the truth.
From a speech at the Warsaw Security Forum. (3/3)
mackfrib 🇺🇦 👨👩👧👦🏒🎿⛳🐶🐕💆♂️ retweeted
Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the WH press corps. You’re laughing but this is what’s happening.
It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated a behavior like that from me.”
mackfrib 🇺🇦 👨👩👧👦🏒🎿⛳🐶🐕💆♂️ retweeted
The U.S. war with Iran has cost $45.1 billion, the Pentagon informed Congress on Friday.
$45.1 billion and counting burned on a war Donald Trump chose to start. An obscene waste of American lives, resources, and taxpayer dollars.
cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/…
mackfrib 🇺🇦 👨👩👧👦🏒🎿⛳🐶🐕💆♂️ retweeted
Our long-range responses had a very significant impact in the Moscow region last night. One of Russia’s key oil industry facilities and the aggressor’s logistics facility were hit. These are billions of dollars that sustain the war machine. The systems used included FP-1, RZ-100, MICH-2000, Palianytsia, Vendetta, Liutyi, Bars, Flamingo, Sichen, and Pelican.
I thank our warriors for their accuracy: the Security Service of Ukraine together with the Unmanned Systems Forces, the Special Operations Forces, the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine, and the Foreign Intelligence Service. Sanctions were also imposed on a facility in the Voronezh region. Moscow must end its brutal war and choose peace instead of building layered rings of air defense at the expense of other regions. Steps toward de-escalation are on the table – in energy and food security. What is needed is political will. I thank everyone who is strengthening Ukraine’s long-range capabilities. I am grateful to everyone who complements our long-range responses with responses through sanctions. Glory to Ukraine!
mackfrib 🇺🇦 👨👩👧👦🏒🎿⛳🐶🐕💆♂️ retweeted
Seizing ballots.
Taking stakes in private companies.
Deploying troops into American cities.
Banning news from the White House.
The stakes could not be clearer. This November, VOTE.
mackfrib 🇺🇦 👨👩👧👦🏒🎿⛳🐶🐕💆♂️ retweeted
This is simply vile. Trump is a loser, and an embarrassment to our country.
mackfrib 🇺🇦 👨👩👧👦🏒🎿⛳🐶🐕💆♂️ retweeted
Билл Клинтон: «МЫ заставили Украину отказаться от ядерного оружия, крылатых ракет и стратегических бомбардировщиков, МЫ обещали защитить Украину от России, МЫ сделали Украину уязвимой.
Так что да, это НАША война».
Когда говорит Президент США, а не аферист-девелопер с Манхэттена.
mackfrib 🇺🇦 👨👩👧👦🏒🎿⛳🐶🐕💆♂️ retweeted
Out of his tiny mind
When will the Americans be brave enough to remove this man who is making America the laughing stock of the world
Trump described Canada as a far greater enemy of the USA than Putin’s Russia.
It is time to say this openly:
– The USA is currently ruled by a dictator who was most likely recruited back in the days of the USSR.
– As it turns out, the American system of checks and balances does not actually exist in reality.
– The trust between Europe and the USA—which had existed since at least 1945—has been buried; if not forever, then certainly for a very long time.
t.me/MirovichMedia/15344
mackfrib 🇺🇦 👨👩👧👦🏒🎿⛳🐶🐕💆♂️ retweeted
81 days.
That's how many days the House of Representatives has worked in DC this year while being paid $174,000, along with $79 a day for food and incidentals, up to $258 per day to pay for their DC housing, a full staff, and gold-level healthcare, of which taxpayers cover 75% of the cost.
The House is on recess right now, won't return until September 14th, and then they'll work just four days before leaving again until November 9th.
These are the people telling everyone who is struggling to work harder, that affordability is a hoax, and causing millions to lose their healthcare despite having their own coverage subsidized.